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Revision as of 02:48, 7 February 2011
Wondering what to do in Christchurch? Try a few of these...
(feel free to add to the list)
- Take a stroll through the Botanic Gardens
- Browse the Arts Centre Markets on a Saturday or Sunday. Enjoy the free musical performances and buskers.
- Visit Christchurch Cathedral in the Square. Walk up inside the spire to the viewing balcony.
- Browse the lunchtime markets in Cathedral Square on Thursdays and Fridays.
- Visit the Antarctic Centre
- Mountain bike through Bottle Lake Forest
- Go swimming at New Brighton Beach
- Appreciate the art at Christchurch Art Gallery
- Appreciate the art at Centre of Contemporary Arts Gallery (COCA)
- Visit Canterbury Museum
- Stroll around the gardens in Halswell Quarry
- Feed the ducks on the Avon River
- Walk the Bridle Path over to the port town of Lyttelton
- Visit Southern Encounter Aquarium and Kiwi House in Cathedral Square
- Have a picnic in the gardens of Mona Vale
- Learn to ride a surfboard at New Brighton beach
- Visit Toko Mata gallery and studio. Rua Pick's painting telling the stories of the First People of this land.
- Walk out to the end of New Brighton pier on a stormy day with big waves.
- Visit Travis Wetland Heritage Park
- Walk the Port Hills-Crater Rim Walkway with great views of Lyttelton Harbour, Christchurch city, Canterbury Plains and Southern Alps.
- Watch sand artist Peter Donnelly create an amazing work on the beach below the New Brighton Pier [1], [2].
- Take a bus out to Sumner and walk along the Esplanade. Have a coffee in a funky cafe or an ice cream while watching the surfers at Scarborough beach.
- Go climbing at the YMCA climbing wall at 12 Hereford Street in the central city.
- Walk the Scarborough Track/Taylors Mistake Walk from Scarborough beach, Sumner
- Walk Mt Vernon Farm Track up the valley past the pylons for a stunning view of Mt Vernon
- Talk a relaxing stroll through Riccarton Bush - a quiet oasis of native forest in the city. Picnic in the Kahikatea Grove.
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